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UN experts urge Latin America and the Caribbean to adopt trend-setting agreement on environmental democracy

22 Oct 2015 | News

GENEVA (22 October 2015) – In an open statement* published today, a group of United Nations human rights experts have expressed their strong support for the efforts by governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to agree on a regional legal instrument on rights of access to information, participation, and justice in environmental matters. “Sustainable development and human rights are interrelated,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, John Knox, as 20 country members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), representing more tha…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Meet in Panama to Negotiate Agreement on Rights of Access in Environmental Matters

22 Oct 2015 | Announcement

Delegates from the 20 countries that have signed the declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, regarding access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters, will meet in Panama on October 27-29, 2015 to continue negotiating a regional agreement on these subjects. The Second Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in Panama City, and is organized by the …

Nicholas Stern: “The COP 21 in Paris Should Be the First of Many Steps”

10 Oct 2015 | News

The actions carried out in the next 20 to 30 years, especially in terms of infrastructure and energy production as a result of demographic growth and the rising rate of urbanization, will be decisive not only to avoid the devastating effects of climate change but also to slash poverty in the world, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern said during a keynote lecture on Friday, October 9 at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. “If we fail in the management of climate change, we fail in overcoming poverty,” said the British expert, who was welcomed by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the …

ECLAC Will Host Regional Carbon Forum With an Eye Towards the Climate Conference in Paris

8 Sep 2015 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Chile will host the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) in Santiago de Chile from September 9-11. The conference will cover the latest developments in market-based mechanisms to address climate change, carbon trading, climate finance, and low-emission development. The Minister of Environment of Chile, Pablo Badenier, will offer a speech at the opening of the meeting, at 9.00 am. on September 9. Coming just months before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, where co…

Experts Analyze Contribution of Fiscal Policies to Combating Climate Change

7 Sep 2015 | News

The use of diverse economic and fiscal instruments such as green taxes, subsidies, charges for waste disposal and emissions certificates to coordinate development objectives with the fight against climate change impacts in the region were the topics addressed during an international seminar held on Monday, September 7, at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. Experts and academics from numerous countries attended the gathering on Climate Change and Environmental Taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)…

ECLAC Devotes One Week in September to Reflect on Climate Change

31 Aug 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will devote one week to climate change with several meetings taking place from September 7-11 that will focus on the discussion of fiscal instruments and development styles, in light of negotiations on a global warming agreement that is expected to be approved in December in Paris. On September 7, authorities and experts will analyze the use of economic and fiscal instruments to comply with the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) that each country must present with a view to the agreement foreseen during the Co…

Caribbean Countries Identify Challenges and Opportunities for Making Progress on Access Rights in Environmental Matters

25 Aug 2015 | News

Representatives from Caribbean countries are meeting on August 24-25 in Saint Lucia to identify opportunities for collective action on the path towards the full implementation of access rights to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters, enshrined in Principle 10 of the Declaration of the 1992 Rio Summit. The meeting is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). Participants include rep…

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

26 Jun 2015 | News

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…

ECLAC Highlights Strategic Regional Action in Defining Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

24 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless. The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …

Trinidad and Tobago will host a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

22 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Caribbean within the post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 24-25 June. This meeting, supported by the Caribbean Development Bank, brings together Ministers and senior policy makers in the fields of planning and development, the environment, and social affairs, to consider among the SDGs those goals that are central to the sustainable development needs of the Caribbean. Specifical…

ECLAC Trains Officials of the Region in Assessment of Disasters

19 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, is strengthening the capacity of specialists and officials of Latin American and Caribbean countries to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters, with activities in Peru, Costa Rica and Saint Vicent and The Granadines. In the case of Peru, the training session in Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) was conducted in Cusco from 16 to 19 June at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction. This course served as the first …

ECLAC staff and local communities join forces on World Environment Day 2015

5 Jun 2015 | News

Staff members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean worked side by side with communities in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to protect and preserve the local environmental heritage, in a special commemoration of the United Nations World Environment Day 2015. Under the theme “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume With Care”, World Environment Day was celebrated this year on Friday 5th June. ECLAC staff partnered with two local non-governmental organizations, the Volunteer Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (VCTT) and…

Regional maritime passenger transportation system to be considered at ECLAC meeting

19 May 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will engage regional experts in discussions regarding the development of an inter-regional maritime passenger transportation system, which will encourage the maximum utilization of the region’s ample available maritime resource. The Caribbean embraces large maritime space, yet this resource remains vastly under-utilized. Opportunities exist for it to be developed for economic and other benefits for the region. The possibilities for developing a regional maritime transport system will be addressed when ECLAC’s subregional headq…

Countries Will Launch Negotiations on a Regional Instrument on Rights Related to Access in Environmental Matters

30 Apr 2015 | Announcement

Representatives of countries in the region will meet from May 5-7, 2015, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, to start the negotiations phase for a regional instrument on access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters. The first meeting of the Negotiating Committee for the regional agreement on access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean will provide follow-up to the agreements adopted in the framework of the process initiated in …

ECLAC and IDLO Join Forces to Advise the Region’s Countries on Economic Policies Oriented towards Sustainable Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) will cooperate on economic and juridical matters to support the region’s countries in the design of economic policies oriented towards boosting sustainable development, including those measures aimed at mitigating climate change impacts. The two organizations signed a cooperation agreement to this effect last January, which will contribute to the development and strengthening of ECLAC and IDLO’s scientific and research work. On the part of ECLAC, the implementation of t…

Study Proposes Public Policy Priorities for Colombian Cities in Accordance with their Social Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

A new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) classifies Colombia’s 23 main cities into six groups according to their social development levels, and proposes priorities in differentiated public policies tailored to each metropolis’ stage of demographic transition. The report Differentiated Social Policies for Cities in Colombia: A New Generation of Social Policies (only available in Spanish) distinguishes between cities that are elderly, mature, adult, big and young, adolescent and embryonic, according to their demographic features, levels of economic pover…

ECLAC is assisting the subregion in identifying Caribbean SDGs

26 Mar 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them. ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society. The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and will cont…

Caribbean experts to discuss Samoa Pathway implementation

13 Mar 2015 | News

Discussions will include consideration of a strategic alignment of the Pathway with the Sustainable Development goals being considered within the framework of the Post 2015 Development Agenda. Known as the “SIDS Accelerated Modalities for Action”, the SAMOA Pathway is the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which was held in Apia, Samoa from 1-4 September 2014. Approved by the United Nations, this intergovernmental agreement serves as the blueprint for the SIDS’ approach to addressing their continuing sustainable development ch…

Sustainable Development Requires Participatory Environmental Education

12 Jan 2015 | News

Between now and 30 January at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 25 public officials from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Paraguay, Panama and Uruguay will take part in the training programme on environmental education, which will use case studies from Chile and Japan to provide them with the tools to manage and resolve critical sustainability problems in the region’s territories. Today the Director of ECLAC’s Programme Planning and Operations Division, Raúl García-Buchaca, opened the second international c…

The RIOCC Network Has Supported the Fight Against Climate Change in Ibero-America for Ten Years

12 Dec 2014 | News

During its ten years of existence, the Ibero-American Network of Climate Change Offices (RIOCC, according to its Spanish initials) has contributed to supporting the fight against climate change by promoting cooperation and coordination among its 21 member countries, senior government officials from the region said during a special event that was held on December 11 in the framework of the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20), which is taking place in Lima, Peru. Participants in the gathering—which celebrated the RIOCC’s 10th anniv…

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